Undergraduate Students' Reading Anxiety In An Emi- Based Program
Abstract
Currently, many Indonesia higher education or universities use English as a
medium for instruction, usually, this university has a special program called the
international program. In other words, international program students are often
exposed to English, so it is possible for those who use EMI to feel anxiety, one of
which is anxiety in reading. This study was conducted to find out what aspects
influence the learners’ anxiety in reading English. Data were gathered by
conducting the FLRAS (foreign language reading anxiety scale) questionnaires,
adapted from Saito 1999 and there are 20 items with one domain feeling about
reading English. The respondents are the international communication science
students program batch 2020, consisting with 45 students. The result of this study
yields aspects that affect students’ reading anxiety are uncommon script and writing
system and unfamiliar cultural background. The highest score revealed X8 with
mean (M=2.925) and standard deviation (SD=1.022) hence the lowest score
presented in X15 with mean (M=2.0) and standard deviation (SD=0.905).